Physical anthropologist Gideon Oliver is honeymooning in rural England when a side trip to an archaeological site leads to an adventure in scholarly intrigue and murder

About the Author&colon;

Aaron Elkins is a former anthropologist and professor who has been writing mysteries and thrillers since 1982. His major continuing series features forensic anthropologist-detective Gideon Oliver, “the Skeleton Detective.” There are fifteen published titles to date in the series. The Gideon Oliver books have been (roughly) translated into a major ABC-TV series and have been selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Literary Guild, and the Readers Digest Condensed Mystery Series. His work has been published in a dozen languages. Mr. Elkins won the 1988 Edgar Award for best mystery of the year for Old Bones, the fourth book in the Gideon Oliver Series. He and his cowriter and wife, Charlotte, also won an Agatha Award, and he has also won a Nero Wolfe Award. Mr. Elkins lives on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula with Charlotte.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Store Description

We are a general music (Rock, Classical, Jazz, Pop, Film, etc., LP's, Cd's, 45's, etc.) & Book Store leaning towards the arts, philosophy and literature. Our location is in central Hollywood. We have a large browsing selection of books along with a focus on classical, jazz, rock & general vinyl records. We also have a large collection of compact discs with a
specialty in classical along with many 45's and 78's. Information available at our website. We are open 12 noon to 8:00pm Pacific Time, Tuesday thru Friday, 12-6pm on Saturday and by appointment on Sunday and Monday: 323-957-7967 (or 65). Off hour Messages can be left between 11am and 11pm at our main store, 323-957-7965.

Payment to be received prior to shipping. Buyer to pay shipping costs. We accept all major credit cards. Personal checks are accepted and purchases paid for by personal check will be mailed after 10 business days. Cashier's check, money order and domestic credit card purchases will be shipped within 3 days of receipt of payment. Return purchase postage will be paid by buyer under most circumstances. Return postage will be paid by Counterpoint if we were at fault in describing the book. For more ...